Brief

Al Hamra Business Tower lifts office space to a new height. Rising 414 meters in the center of Kuwait City, the 80 floors landmark Tower achieves a striking mix of iconic sculptural form and breathtaking office views overlooking the Gulf.Two spacious Sky Lobbies separate the Tower into six zones and two executive floors complete the stacking of the Tower at the top. The typical office floor achieves 2,300 square meters with a total gross area of the Tower over 195,000 square meters.

The base of the tower anchors a mixed-use complex which includes a Luxury Center for extravagance goods, a nine screen Cinema, a gourmet Café Court and facilities for Spa and Health Club. Adjacent to the Business Tower, a new, spacious Car Park will accommodate over 2,000 vehicles.The purity of its form, expressed by a simple operation of removal, is a timeless, elegant marker in the heart of Kuwait City.

With the aim of maximizing Gulf views and minimizing solar heat gain on the office floors, a quarter of each floor plate is chiseled out of the south face, shifting from west to east at each level. The result of this tooling reveals the rich, monolithic stone of the south wall framed by the graceful, twisting ribbons of the flared walls and defines the iconic form of the Tower: A modern sculpture expressing the illusion of a subtle, elegant twist or resembling an enshrouded figure with its delicate glass veil reflecting the profile of the peninsula.

The point at the apex of the Tower not only resolves this complex geometry of the carved flared walls but implies the continuation of the sculptural form infinitely upwards.The Tower will welcome its tenants with a soaring 24 meter high lobby. This space, with its delicate structural vaulting, provides an elegant introduction to the offices above or the shopping beyond.

The first office floor starts at 40 meters above ground to ensure views from each office space. On each floor of the Tower above, a corridor connects the two wings of the typical office floor plate. This bridge presents a dramatic spatial experience with sculpted windows in the south wall providing dramatic views south to the expanse of the city, the peninsula and the infinite desert beyond.

At the top of the Tower, inside a 70 meter high spire, a private restaurant and lounge will provide the best dining experience available in the gulf region.

Through the use of delicate glass and metal for the office floors and the monolithic stone cladding of the flared walls and south wall, the resultant form will afford optimal transparency north, east and west to the Gulf and near-complete opacity south against the severe desert sun.

This iconic landmark at the cultural and political center of Kuwait will pioneer a new era of development and prosperity.